The role of Structural Engineers

Structural engineers will work with commercial, industrial and domestic customers who require their services. Most Structural engineers will offer a number of different services most of which will centre on the design and evaluation of anything that supports or carries a load within a structure. Structural engineers tend to work in two main areas which are buildings and non-building structures. Structural engineers who focus on buildings will work to ensure that a building is structural safe and meets and the required structural safety guidelines for it to be approved by building inspectors. Many people will hire structural engineers to carry out thorough home inspection services when they are building or buying a property to ensure it is structurally sound.

Structural engineers will inspect a buildings foundations, walls, infrastructure and insulation to ensure they are all safe and up to the required standards. Structural engineers who are hired to carry out Home inspection services will be called upon at specific stages of a building project to inspect the work so far and to sign it off before the next stage can commence. The types of home inspection and property inspection services that structural engineers will undertake are maintenance planning, scheduling and project costing, project inspection on forensic investigation, thermo graphic imaging, reporting on insulation efficiency of a property, annual infra-red scanning of buildings electrical reticulation as per OSH act regulations and many other home inspection services.

Infrared thermal imaging is becoming more widely used by structural engineers as it is very powerful tool. It can be used to check for cracks behind the surface cover of a wall, it can be used to see if under floor heating has been correctly installed or pick up where a fault lies in the system, it can be used to carry out an effective energy home inspection to show where more insulation is needed to save energy and it can also be used for preventative maintenance in a number of different industry settings.

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